{"id":387239,"date":"2026-04-19T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:44:21","slug":"in-malaysia-unlicensed-street-photography-becomes-focus-of-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387239\/","title":{"rendered":"In Malaysia, unlicensed street photography becomes focus of crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many Europeans are considering putting long-haul flying on the back burner as jet fuel costs and airfares climb, those with a trip already booked for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/malaysia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Malaysia<\/a> may need to watch out if ambling around with a camera slung across a shoulder.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Following an early April warning about unlicensed street photography, city authorities in Kuala Lumpur, the country\u2019s capital, have confiscated equipment from six people, five of them non-Malaysians, pending payment of fines levied under street hawking regulations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to local media reports, Kuala Lumpur City Hall said enforcement would be carried out from time to time because unauthorised photography breaches hawking rules and could pose a safety risk to visitors and drivers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Street photographers at Kuala Lumpur landmarks have often offered tourists a more professional alternative to a selfie for a fee.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People look at Kuala Lumpur\u2019s skyline from an observation deck on July 31, 2025. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2ed75611-774f-465b-827e-820796a22fd6_b99df050.jpg\" title=\"People look at Kuala Lumpur\u2019s skyline from an observation deck on July 31, 2025. Photo: Reuters\"\/>People look at Kuala Lumpur\u2019s skyline from an observation deck on July 31, 2025. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Malaysia is one of the world\u2019s most popular holiday destinations, with government statistics showing 42 million arrivals in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While many Europeans are considering putting long-haul flying on the back burner as jet fuel costs and airfares&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,89742,30770,4325,501,156,5696,1777,200613,200614,1775,111,139,69,56499,9739,4426,4327,200612],"class_list":{"0":"post-387239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-borneo","13":"tag-brunei","14":"tag-cambodia","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-indonesia","18":"tag-kuala-lumpur","19":"tag-kuala-lumpur-city-hall","20":"tag-kuala-lumpur-tower","21":"tag-malaysia","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-petronas-twin-towers","26":"tag-singapore","27":"tag-southeast-asia","28":"tag-thailand","29":"tag-unlicensed-street-photography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}